I have been playing Stardew Valley because the real world sucks and everybody can piss off 😠

Halo: Combat Evolved. I get what all the hype was about. This is a good game!

Playing through Hades 1. I never got out of Hades until this time around, and I'm having fun grinding to complete some of the fated choices and lounge renovations.

Half Life: Opposing Force

Never played it before and the movement feels a lot faster than modern games. Its a good and fun game.

Factorio, checking out Space Age. Discovered that Cliff Explosives are moved further down the tech tree...

Mass Effect. First time through the trilogy.

Just finished Death Stranding, now starting up Witcher 3.

Heh, Stardew Valley here. I slept on it for years, until I found that it's available on the Google Play Store lol.

Works really well on mobile!!

Friend bought me ToTK so I’ve been having fun with that.

Pseudoregalia. Indie game with ridiculous movement tech. Very fun!

Got back into Slay the Spire on a whim. Nice little turn based card thingy, with beautiful art, and fun synergies.

Gave Warframe a shot again, game is still shit, but I am still having fun, so we'll see how long that lasts.

I've been replaying Pillars of Eternity II - in fact I have the tavern music stuck in my head right now. Mostly I just need some CRPG gameplay, so I'm not doing anything wildly different with my character this time around. Maybe I should do an evil run...
Knowing how the ending works, I'm still not sure which faction to go with.

Does Half-Life 2 count? I played it years ago but fully replayed it over a couple of days to hear the new developer commentary. I never thought Valve would get around to making one for Half-Life 2, so I'm glad they did.

Half Life 2. They gave it to me for free.

Finished it and got Necromunda: Hired Gun for $13.

Started playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice this week. I may or may not have bought it because I got it mixed up with Ghost of Tsushima, so the fact that it's essentially Bloodborne but in Japan caught me a bit off guard, but it's not bad. There's been three separate times now where I've gotten stuck on a boss, closed the game thinking "I hate soulslike games, this was a waste of money," and then beat the boss on my first try the next day.

It seems like they took into account the fact that you can't summon friends when they tuned the difficulty. It's not easy by a longshot, but it's not as impossible as other Fromsoft games.

The posture gauge is my favorite game mechanic. Having both defense and offense move the fight along makes it so much less of a slog than other soulslikes. Normally I just dart around the battlefield getting one light attack in every 30 seconds, but this game has me standing right next to the boss, actively rewarding me for memorizing telegraphs and attack patterns. It's super satisfying.

ETA: I almost forgot another good thing about this game! You don't level up individual stats one at a time! Some see this lower level of customization as a drawback, but I see it as an improvement. You'll never get to the end of the game and hit an insurmountable roadblock because you levelled up stamina too much. You can get every skill and use every tool. Boss fights become a matter of mutable equipment loadouts instead of irreversible level choices.

I've been playing Monster Hunter Now on mobile, it fucking sucks unfortunately, but it's making want to play MH:World again to just grind out armor pieces casually... Although thinking about it, that's also a chore because unlocking cosmetics is super tiduous and can be really hard... Hmm...

Also playing Legends of Runeterra.

I’m playing Minecraft on the Wii U with my daughter… and since the eShop closed a while ago, I didn’t have any issues unlocking all skins and DLCs by…. Alternative means 😅

I like the style of the Mass Effect texture pack, and it’s fun exploring the included map.

RuneScape. Always heard about how “grindy” it is. 1 hour in and I think I’m beginning to understand.

Cyberpunk,

Finally picked it up on this sale with Phantom Liberty.

Played about an hour so far, seems OK, have to get my Steam Controller setup properly for it still.

Dragon Age Origins for the first time. I think I'm at the climax of the Redcliffe arc, and finally I understand why people call Veilguard "disneyfied".

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for PSP. It's not favorite genre, being an FPS, but as far as I've gotten, I can rely on my heavily-gunned Tachikoma to handle the problem when I struggle with the controls.

I played through Gris and had an absolute blast. I finished it in <3 hours, but spent another 3 or so tracking down collectibles (momentos) because the world is so pretty.

I also played Monument Valley 1&2, each in one sitting. The puzzles weren't very hard, but I'm a sucker for non-Euclidean worlds (also loved The Bridge and Manifold Garden).

Other than that, I've been playing a bit of Fire Emblem: Engage. I probably won't finish that before Christmas though, it's a long game.

I'm probably going to pick up Bomb Rush Cyberfunk this Steam sale, which recently turned 1. I have kids, and they're each getting a Switch game for Christmas, so I'll have a few more to play soon.

Sand Land. The style is great. Story is pretty cool and well delivered. Gameplay is meh. Feels like a watered down Mad Max.

Fallout New Vegas! I'm really enjoying all the characters that I have met so far, but I'm starting to realize that villifying factions right from the start isn't the best idea when trying to get to new places

I’ve been playing Silent Storm a 2004 strategy RPG that is a total hidden gem. A little primitive but it feels a bit like the battle system from BG 3 with guns.

I never tried it before because I thought the RPG part would be dumb. But it's surprisingly fun and has the great Meretzky humor.

it's even on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/...
EDIT: GOG version is probably superior: https://www.gog.com/...

Took me a while, but I finally took the time to play Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2, and recently started Watch Dogs: Legion.

Been on Monster Hunter Sunbreak for a couple weeks now. It's absolutely become my favorite modern monhun game, and it's significantly improved my mental state.

Also playing Redout 2 and Blue Revolver, an old bullet hell shmup that just got a massive game revision.

Other than that, I was playing NFSU2 because of the 20th anniversary and the release of a great soft-remaster mod

I gave the first Armored Core a try and played a few missions. The movement is rather clunky coming straight from the buttery smooth Armored Core 6. However, the other systems seem pretty robust for the first game in the series.

I have been waiting for the AEW Wrestling game Fight Forever to be cheap, and am having a lovely time! It's very fun to play, and has an okay roster (i got DLC with it).

I wouldn't be thrilled with buying on release at £50 and then £80 on DLC, but under 20 for the lot seemed okay :) definitely not perfect, but a fun game with some cool details. :)

I finally picked up Balatro on Android. Wow, I'm hooked.

I've been having a lot of fun with Green Hell lately

Dont know yet, but a very stressful period is done at the end of this week and i have some vacation after so from next week i will find an old gem and play the heck out of it

NFS Unbound and BF2042 cause it‘s five bucks each rn.

I think BF is fine for 5 bucks if you don‘t think about how much worse it is compared to BF3 or 4, it‘s still silly fun for cheap on its own.

NFS I struggle to recommend even for this price, unless you‘re already done with all the Forzas, Crews, Grids, and Dirts of this world. The driving just feels incredibly wrong, lots of „what the fuck just happened?“ And it runs poorly even though it looks mediocre.

Chained Together was fun so far with a friend, although it‘s clearly not very polished.

I also got Deep Rock Galactic, but I haven‘t spent much time in it yet. This one in contrast looks very polished lol

Lastly, Chicory has been a lot of fun and a unique experience. A cute and wholesome game I can recommend.

After I became „worthy“ this week in Distance, I also want to recommend it again. It‘s a game I discovered through people talking about it on here and it was a great experience.

Bulletstorm full clip edition.

Really fun shooter with an interesting scoring mechanic.

I started and finished The Case of the Golden Idol. Good stuff. Playing the sequel now.

Thief, anno 1404

I've finally been playing through Mad Professor Mariarti on the Amiga. I saw it played many times as a child but now I'm finally playing it myself - and beating it!

MGS Ghost Babel! Obviously a little primitive because it's a GBC game but the plot's pretty exciting and holds up even today

Finally got some time alone to play some more octopath traveller 2 and make some progress in a couple of storylines

Finished Lego City Undercover and The Veilguard. Had a blast with both.

Unnamed Space Idle. Not very patient though, unless you count the gameplay itself haha.

Slay the Spire co-op mod and AC6 are also recent plays for me but not strictly this week. I'm not sure that I'm gonna stick with AC6 though.

I've just finished playing Half-Life (or in fact, the fan-made remake Black Mesa), and Half-Life: Uplink (the demo version that was released after the final game, and it consisted of a short non-canon scenario that's not included in the final game, but lately was included in the 25th anniversary version).

I will be playing HL: Opposing Force and Blue Shift next. And in general I am planning to fish every Half-Life game this month (except Alyx since I don't have good enough hardware for me to enjoy it, and playing it on GTX 1060 3GB is not enjoyable at all), and if it goes well Portal games as well.

Outlast Trials and I'm giving Destiny 2 a shot.

I have sunk so much time into Voices of the Void it's honestly crazy

Nothing new yet. Well, the last few weeks I started a new character in Valheim, the first one for me since the mistlands biome update.

Valheim has been on steam for a year or so, but is only just nearing 1.0 release. I had gotten on fairly early to play with budddies, and it was 20 bucks well spent. Played a good bit with my buds, Iv played a lot more solo. Survival/Base builder. Norse mythology setting. Not sure the price now with release imminent, but worth adding to the watch/wish list if the genre is right or you.

But, iirc the game is called Druidstone. Turn-based tactics game, foresty magic pg 13 looking. Been on my steam list for ever and was 5 bucks recently. Gonna play it soon I swear. I'm a little disheartened because it looks like you are stuck with 3 specific characters, instead of building a party. But hey maybe skill trees? Anywhoots I'll post more about that one later.